In the first days of the pandemic, an eerie hush fell over Toronto. As the familiar background hum returns, it's worth remembering that the sounds of the city are not neutral or inevitable. How noise, and our clumsy attempts to control and police it, shapes city life.

This pandemic is global, but the way we've experienced it has been hyperlocal. Confined to our neighbourhoods, different communities have been affected by the crisis in vastly different ways. Stories from one hundred days of lockdown across a sprawling city whose divisions have only grown more apparent.